Mayer v. Oil Field System Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 59 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Luce v. Edelstein (1986), Azrielli v. Cohen Law Offices (1994)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Securities & Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co. · Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green · Superintendent of Insurance of State of New York v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the investing limited partners exercised no managerial role in the partnership’s affairs, courts have held that limited partnership interests are securities, at least when, as here, there were a considerable number of limited partners.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“scheme involves an investment of money in a common enterprise with profits to come solely from the efforts of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ended up after the alleged fraud exactly where they had begun.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.